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The stereotype that police pick on black people more than white people stems from reality (not just in America); the stereotype that black men are not attentive

The stereotype that police pick on black people more than white people stems from reality (not just in America); the stereotype that black men are not attentive fathers stems from racism. It's important to understand the difference. But, why do you think it's rude? https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/01/10/the-dangerous-myth-of-the-missing-black-father/?utm_term=.bfc25b20f1be https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/01/10/... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/10/27/police-are-searching-black-drivers-more-often-but-finding-more-illegal-stuff-with-white-drivers-2/?utm_term=.18064a293096 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/10/27/polic... http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-cops-race-injury-20160725-snap-story.html http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-cops-rac... http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/black-people-stop-and-search-six-times-police-racist-a7383591.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/black-people-...

randyrand 9y ago
> the stereotype that black men are not attentive fathers stems from racism. Non preset African american fathers also stems from reality, just like the police stereotype. The Washington post source you gave actually did not dispute the absent fatherhood statistics - the article was about explaining why. in the USA, 18% of non-Hispanic white fathers do not live with their children compared to 30% of hispanics, and 42% of blacks. Rephrased from here: "Non-Hispanic white men aged 15–44 had the largest difference between those with coresidential children (37%) and those with noncoresidential children (8.2%). The difference was smallest among non-Hispanic black men, with 33% having coresidential children and 24% having noncoresidential children. Among Hispanic men, more than twice as many had coresidential children (44%) than had noncoresidential children (18%)." https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr071.pdf https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr071.pdf
- grasshopperpurp 9y ago
  That's my mistake. Here is the article I meant to post: Now to the mythology of the black male dereliction as dads: While it is true that black parents are less likely to marry before a child is born, it is not true that black fathers suffer a pathology of neglect. In fact, a C.D.C. report issued in December 2013 found that black fathers were the most involved with their children daily, on a number of measures, of any other group of fathers — and in many cases, that was among fathers who didn’t live with their children, as well as those who did. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/08/opinion/charles-blow-black-dads-are-doing-the-best-of-all.html https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/08/opinion/charles-blow-blac...
  - randyrand 9y ago
    That source has some good points , but it too does not dispute the statistics. Just explains some of it. The one statistic it gave that disputes for more daily activity was for children under age 5, for certain activities, and only for black fathers that live with their children - not on the whole. Very bad cherry picking and bad reporting. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr071.pdf https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr071.pdf

randyrand 9y ago

> the stereotype that black men are not attentive fathers stems from racism. Non preset African american fathers also stems from reality, just like the police stereotype. The Washington post source you gave actually did not dispute the absent fatherhood statistics - the article was about explaining why. in the USA, 18% of non-Hispanic white fathers do not live with their children compared to 30% of hispanics, and 42% of blacks. Rephrased from here: "Non-Hispanic white men aged 15–44 had the largest difference between those with coresidential children (37%) and those with noncoresidential children (8.2%). The difference was smallest among non-Hispanic black men, with 33% having coresidential children and 24% having noncoresidential children. Among Hispanic men, more than twice as many had coresidential children (44%) than had noncoresidential children (18%)." https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr071.pdf https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr071.pdf

grasshopperpurp 9y ago
That's my mistake. Here is the article I meant to post: Now to the mythology of the black male dereliction as dads: While it is true that black parents are less likely to marry before a child is born, it is not true that black fathers suffer a pathology of neglect. In fact, a C.D.C. report issued in December 2013 found that black fathers were the most involved with their children daily, on a number of measures, of any other group of fathers — and in many cases, that was among fathers who didn’t live with their children, as well as those who did. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/08/opinion/charles-blow-black-dads-are-doing-the-best-of-all.html https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/08/opinion/charles-blow-blac...
- randyrand 9y ago
  That source has some good points , but it too does not dispute the statistics. Just explains some of it. The one statistic it gave that disputes for more daily activity was for children under age 5, for certain activities, and only for black fathers that live with their children - not on the whole. Very bad cherry picking and bad reporting. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr071.pdf https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr071.pdf